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Marlborough's East Coast earthquakes
Marlborough’s East Coast is cross hatched with fault
lines[http://www.shakeout.govt.nz/marlborough/] so the large
earthquakes of 2013 and 2016 should not have been
surprising, although it is thought...

The hilltop overlooking Whakatü is known to Mäori as
Pikimai, which translates as ‘climb hither'. Piki mai was
a staging point for the pakohe[pakohe-argillite/]
(argillite) industry, the nearest quarries...

Collingwood lad, Trooper Ralph Vincent James 2483, died of
enteric fever (typhoid fever) on 20 November 1900 at Zeerust
Transvaal, South Africa while serving in the Boer
War[http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/war/south-african-boer-war/introduction]
for the...

The mill which Edward Baigent built at Ryversdale, at the
entrance to Pigeon
Valley[http://www.google.co.nz/maps/place/Pigeon+Valley,+Tasman+7025/@-41.3992349,173.0398135,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x6d3ba27cd64e6969:0x936e74b826a0f3b0]
in 1855, was not the first he had built in the
Wakefield[sitetree_link,id=430] area, nor was it...